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RE: Amazon Patent Filing on Web Services Marketplace

• To: "Bullard, Claude L \(Len\)" <len.bullard@i...>, "Ken North" <kennorth@s...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Amazon Patent Filing on Web Services Marketplace
• From: "Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@b...>
• Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 15:49:00 -0400
• Thread-index: AcWZLNozc3FG0wbpTRSh5QmDwHbjmgAAJ+lQ
• Thread-topic: Amazon Patent Filing on Web Services Marketplace

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:len.bullard@i...] 
> Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 3:33 PM
> To: 'Ken North'; xml-dev@l...
> Subject: RE:  Amazon Patent Filing on Web Services 
> Marketplace
> 
> Steve Newcomb made an astute observation many years ago as 
> the www was first being touted.  He said that at some point, 
> owners of nodes that began to notice that their machines were 
> using a lot of cycles moving other people's messages from 
> place to place would charge for the passthrough.

I wonder if Steve thought about patenting that idea...I'll have to ask
him next time I see him.

Joe

Joseph Chiusano
Booz Allen Hamilton
O: 703-902-6923
C: 202-251-0731
Visit us online@ http://www.boozallen.com
 
> Metered Internet nodes: that will bring the revolution to a 
> screaming halt.  Or the big guys will give up these patents. 
> 
> len
> 
> 
> From: Ken North [mailto:kennorth@s...]
> 
> While doing some research, I found two interesting patent 
> applications that surfaced last week.
> 
> One is Amazon's. It sees a potential profit from acting as a 
> broker for web services.
> 
> The other is by Google. Its patent application concerns RSS 
> feeds: searching for them and using content-matching 
> techniques to insert ads in RSS streams.
> 
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